Morning of 12-21-6

I was meaning to get my resting heartrate first thing in the morning. It always seems too high for comfort when I check it. So I glance over at the clock and wait for it to hit the next minute. I count.

75 BPM. Huh? Isn’t that really high for FIRST thing in the morning? I realized I DID stretch inadvertantly, but come on, stretching can’t shoot your heartrate up that much. So I did it again.

74 BPM. Ridiculous. Hrm. My heart feels slower right now. :: checks ::

68 BPM. …Huh? How can I have a lower heartrate after I’ve gotten out of bed? Maybe I was warm under the sheets. I’m completely naked right now. :: nods :: Oh, and upwardly tuggified. I’m proud of how dedicated I am to my penis. He needs love! :: hugs his penis ::

I’ve been saying for a while that I want to drop my resting heartrate. After I finish HGM in June (all ten phases), I want to put together some sort of twice daily training to drop my heartrate. I’m thinking some steady-state cardio in the morning, and then some intensive lifting in the evening. My logic is that I’d rather lift in the evening so my musskulls have the next day to recover. If I were to do it the other way around, it might sabotage myself. It’s a thought.

Of course, it occurs to me that I’ll have some time on my hands over winter break. It’s only three weeks, but it’s SOMETHING. Lowering my resting heartrate is rather important to me, so any time spend on it is worth it. Lifting with low rest periods increases my work capacity, which it has, I can handle much lower rest periods than I could a year ago. But, as far as I know, the best way to lower one’s heartrate is steady-state cardio. Which I absolutely detest. But, as I said, my heartrate is rather important to me.

I recall the few times I tried it over the summer, I held somewhere around 150 BPM for around 20 minutes. And nearly died in the process. Ha ha. Using the Karvonen Formula ((MHR-RHR)*intensity)+RHR, 150 BPM would place my intensity somewhere under 65%, which.. probably is a little low. 155 BPM would place it somewhere between 65% and 70%. Over a three-week span, I could just add time to get myself up to 45 minutes? That’s actually very feasible. It supposedly takes six weeks for changes to really take place, but as I said, three weeks is better than nothing.

I’ll try getting into the habit of checking my resting heartrate when I first get up. It would be really bad if it really is normally over 70.